May was also the month for our largest-ever WordCamp San Francisco. Mission Bay Conference Center was a packed house, but (amazingly) everything ran on schedule, and nothing went wrong! A round of applause is due to our sponsors, speakers, and everyone who attended for helping to make WordCamp such a smooth success. Thanks for making it all possible.

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Matt, I can’t blame you if it took you took weeks to recover from WordCamp SF 2009! Great conference, great party, not to mention awesome platform that brings us all soooooo much fun!! Thank you and congrats on 6 years of awesomeness! (PS LOVE the new digs on the water of the SF BAY! What an inspiring place to think and play! Thanks for inviting us all over!)

This is my last comment on the following topic. Do you think to have available in an uncertain future time a variant of Tarsky that allows full black text?
I would very much appreciate it, because I love Tarsky, but this detail for the use I do.

Américo: if you want to change the default font colors of a theme, you’d be best off buying the CSS upgrade, which will give you fill control over the appearance of all theme elements. In your dashboard, click on Upgrades in the navigation menu and you’ll see how to proceed. More information is available here: http://support.wordpress.com/custom-css/

As ever a round of applause to WordPress for all that it has achieved and enabled others to achieve.

The opening heading – “Sorry for this being the latest wrap-up ever.” has me both puzzled and a little concerned. The wrap ups are a nice way of catching up with what has gone before – why are they stopping and is something replacing them?

You guys ROCK way beyond even the best Led Zeppelin concert ever!!! I was not gifted with techno-savy. Even crashed a computer a few years ago trying to build a website. Disaster on all levels. A friend guided me to wordpress a few months ago (yes…..even with the ease you gift us with it’s taken me that long to get set up!) and I could not be more grateful!

Hi Clark. WordCamps are not produced by WordPress.com, but are community organized, so they are generally not announced/publicized here on the official WordPress.com blog. However, all WordCamps around the world are listed on the official WordCamp site at http://wordcamp.org so keep an eye on that for more events in your area.

Thanks for everything you do — I started my blog in April and have been really enjoying the experience. WordPress.com has made it fun for me, and easy to concentrate on content rather than technical issues. I am very grateful for this free and accessible forum!

I was one of the new users, new blogs in May. I’m very happy to be here as overall it seems to work better than blogger where, like many I guess, I started my first blog. Thanks for all your hard work.

Before using wordpress I was just dreaming to start like this. WordPress doing a great job and its figures shows how famours and rapidly becoming number 1 choice for not only blogers but it becoming as CMS as well.

May has brought a world of cheer, in the zone of economy, in the prism of seasons, and in the composition of wordpress. The platform, for liberal opinion and expression of thoughts, is growing in a stupendous speed.
Keep it up.

Your hard work is very appreciated, and I know I speak for many WP bloggers. The choice to go with wordpress as a blogging platform was clear… and updates as you have listed proves that decision was correct.

All WordPress.com blogs run Akismet to filter spam, which is very effective. If you think you are getting a lot of spam, please contact support so they can check your blog to make sure everything is working as it should.

It sounds like you did some really useful upgrades this month! Woohoo!! Now, if I were a bit more computer literate, I may be able to take advantage of them! This granny has a hard enough time “up (or down?) loading” pictures, muchless trying to figure out video’s! (You tube scares me!) I do have fun writing blogs though, and it sounds “buck” to be able to post a blog from e-mail! I may have to investigate that feature some day! 🙂

Thanks Matt,
You guys are great. The service is excellent. I am not an IT wiz but I am able to blog comfortably.

About a month ago I had at least 100 reasons to start a blog. Today I wonder what my live would be like without it. Some of my readers tell me how much they appreciate my posts…I could not reach them with my thoughts and insights if it was not for WordPress. My readers have also inspired and motivated me to write my first book. Wow!

The thing is, as soon as a person find a provider as good as WordPress, millions other also find it. And then you become a star in the universe! billions and billions of stars out there! Unless I sell sex, or do the game thing or the celeb thing, a site is a site. Like mine, and a million more. We get the casual passerby click, somebody is surfing, and we get a click. And then the clicker see that the site he/she clicked does not do the things I have mentioned, and the clcker moves on. A bit like when I check some of the spammers I get on my site. You click, you see, you do not like, delete, and then you move on.
Bamboric